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I had the worst night of sleep I can remember. Parts of me were aching and I kept turning around to be comfortable. The blankets stuck to me so I kept rolling out of them and getting cold. My brain was stuck in loops of thought. I was creating, maybe working on, some kind of geographical information index. I would index things by name, but then I had to stop and do it again by location, and stop and do it again by date, and then stop and do it again by name.... Just endless loops of that for hours and hours.

Finally Danae woke up to go to her conference and gave me some of her Tylenol with codeine. After she left, I laid down again and finally got some sleep. I just woke up about half an hour ago. I was thinking about going out to see some of the city. I didn't make it to Strawberry Fields when I was here before. But it's still cold and wet outside, and I'm still feeling a little sick (though much better), and I've gotten next to no work down so far this trip. I'm going to work on the annotated bibliography for my research design class, and think about where to get food when I get hungry which I imagine will happen soon.

Shootings

Another student at SU, talking about mass shootings a few weeks ago, was confused about why this keeps happening here. He is from Pakistan, and commented, to paraphrase, my country is officially a terrorist state, and this still doesn't happen there.